Feeling sad, down, or depressed? Life feels miserable and you have no motivation to do anything. You stopped caring. Things won’t get better. You feel irritable. Sometimes the littlest things annoy you. Maybe you even let yourself go a little or even a lot. Things feel hopeless. You can’t imagine them getting better. Everything feels so difficult. You think- why is life so unfair? Why do bad things happen to me? You can’t shake feelings of guilt. Sometimes the guilt makes no sense because you know you shouldn’t feel guilty, yet you do. You feel worthless. You don’t like yourself much. People may not even like being around you because you bring them down. You feel all alone, no one understands, or cares about you.
These are symptoms of depression. There are different types of “mood disorders,” which is what depression is known as- so it’s important to get diagnosed.